Pingxiang Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Movement Memorial Hall

Pingxiang Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Movement Memorial Hall

The Pingxiang Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Movement Memorial Hall is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction, a cultural heritage site protected by Jiangxi Province, a classic red tourism destination, and a patriotic education base.

Anyuan is the cradle of China’s workers’ movement, the birthplace of modern industry in China, and the origin and main outbreak site of the Autumn Harvest Uprising on the Hunan-Jiangxi border. The Pingxiang Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Movement Memorial Hall is a thematic museum established in 1956 to collect and preserve relics related to the Anyuan workers’ movement, as well as to research and promote the history of the revolutionary struggle in Anyuan. In 1968, the exhibition building was constructed, and in 1984, Comrade Deng Xiaoping inscribed the name of the memorial hall.

The museum complex covers an area of 100,000 square meters, with a building area of 21,341 square meters and an exhibition area of 3,567 square meters (including 3,245 square meters for the main exhibition hall and 322 square meters for the Anyuan-Era Integrity Construction Exhibition Hall). The museum currently houses over 5,000 cultural relics and materials, including 61 first-grade relics/sets, 67 second-grade relics/sets, and 2,050 third-grade relics/sets. It is responsible for the protection and promotion of 14 cultural heritage sites, including 4 national key cultural heritage sites, 8 provincial-level cultural heritage sites, 1 municipal-level site, and 1 district-level site. There are also two affiliated exhibition halls: the Anyuan-Era Integrity Construction Exhibition Hall and the Exhibition Hall of the Revolutionary Activities of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China in Anyuan.

Since its establishment, the museum has received over 50 million visitors from home and abroad, including more than 2 million foreign guests and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan from over 100 countries and regions. Leaders of the Party and the state have also visited the museum for tours and guidance. On November 5, 2007, it was the first in the country to open to the public free of charge. Since then, it has welcomed nearly 12 million visitors, with approximately 1.2 million in 2018 alone. It has been awarded numerous honors, including one of the first batch of 100 National Patriotic Education Demonstration Bases, the first batch of National Defense Education Demonstration Bases, a National First-Class Museum, a National AAAA-Level Tourist Attraction, One of China’s Top Ten Red Tourism Attractions, a Field Teaching Site of the China Executive Leadership Academy Jinggangshan, a National Model Post for Women’s Achievements, a National Popular Science Base for Humanities and Social Sciences, a National Revolutionary Tradition Education Base for Youth, a National Revolutionary Tradition Education Demonstration Base for Trade Union Cadres, a National Research and Practice Education Base for Primary and Secondary Schools, the Best Tourist Service Scenic Spot in China, a Classic Red Tourism Destination in China, and an Advanced Unit of Red Tourism in China.

The Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Movement Memorial Hall covers an area of 100,000 square meters and is responsible for the protection and promotion of 23 immovable cultural heritage sites, including 6 national key cultural heritage sites, 11 Jiangxi Provincial cultural heritage sites, and 1 Pingxiang Municipal cultural heritage site. There are also two thematic exhibition halls: the Anyuan-Era Integrity Construction Exhibition Hall and the Exhibition Hall of the Revolutionary Activities of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China in Anyuan. The museum complex is divided into upper, middle, and lower squares, as well as four functional zones: office area, leisure area, visiting area, and ecological area. The sides of the museum’s eight major steps are lined with neatly planted dragon cypresses, while tall and majestic cedar trees stand on both sides of the upper square. The ecological forest area at the back of the hill is mainly composed of camphor trees, creating picturesque scenery throughout all seasons...

The Workers' Memorial Hall is the main structure of the Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Movement Memorial Hall. Established in 1956, it covers an area of 100,000 square meters and is located in Anyuan Town, Anyuan District, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province. Its name was inscribed by Deng Xiaoping. The museum currently houses over 5,000 cultural relics, including 53 national first-grade relics, and 17 immovable cultural heritage sites, among which 4 are national key cultural heritage sites and 6 are provincial-level sites. Since its establishment, it has received over 11 million visitors from around the world. With the Workers' Memorial Hall as the center and leading attraction, Anyuan is gradually becoming a red tourism destination in western Jiangxi that integrates education, sightseeing, leisure, and entertainment.

The basic exhibition of the memorial hall systematically introduces the period from 1921 to 1930, when the Communist Party of China led the workers of the Anyuan Road and Mine, carried out struggles, peasant movements, and armed resistance against imperialism and feudalism. The exhibition is divided into six sections: (1) Road and Mine Workers Under Triple Oppression; (2) Organizing Together; (3) The Great Strike of Road and Mine Workers; (4) Persistence and Development After the February 7th Massacre; (5) Workers and Peasants United, Supporting the Northern Expedition; (6) The Autumn Harvest Uprising and Armed Agrarian Revolution. In addition to texts, photos, and artifacts, there are also large sculptures such as "The Hardship of Miners," "Mao Zedong Goes to Anyuan," "The Great Strike," "Workers and Peasants Alliance," and "Marching Toward Jinggangshan."

The museum currently houses over 5,000 cultural relics, including about 200 first-grade items. Among them are the "Anyuan Semi-Monthly," workers’ consumer cooperative stocks, and shopping vouchers. These are considered quite valuable and hold a significant place in the history of modern Chinese literature. The museum also manages several national and provincial-level protected cultural heritage sites, including the former site of the Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Club (two locations), the former site of the main inclined shaft entrance of the Anyuan Coal Mine, the former site of the first remedial school for Anyuan Road and Mine workers, the former site of the Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Consumer Cooperative, the former site of the building where Liu Shaoqi negotiated with the mine authorities, the former site of the military meeting in Anyuan to plan the Autumn Harvest Uprising on the Hunan-Jiangxi border, and a German-style company building. Municipal-level protected sites include: Mao Zedong’s residence during his visit to Anyuan in the autumn of 1921, the former site of the Party branch meeting where the strike was decided, the Anyuan Workers, Peasants, and Soldiers Government, and eight other locations.

The Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Movement is a shining example of the early combination of Marxism with the Chinese workers' movement. The Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Movement Memorial Hall serves as a national revolutionary tradition education base for youth, providing a new platform and vehicle to strengthen such education and cultivate socialist laborers and successors with Chinese characteristics. Its goal is to help young people better understand the great significance of the Anyuan Road and Mine Workers' Movement, guide them to love learning, labor, the Party, the country, and the people, foster in them correct worldviews, outlooks on life, and values, and inspire them to continue striving for the realization of the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation.

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Address: Anyuan Town, Anyuan District, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province

Anyuan Town: Located in the eastern suburbs of Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, Anyuan Town is 5 kilometers from downtown Pingxiang. It covers a total area of 25.5 square kilometers, including 218 hectares of arable land. The town administers 6 administrative villages and 12 neighborhood committees, hosts 11 resident organizations and 16 enterprises and institutions, and has 1 middle school and 6 primary schools. The total population is 36,000, including 12,400 agricultural residents. Anyuan currently has over 20 cultural heritage sites protected at the national, provincial, and municipal levels, making it an important base for patriotic education in China. In 1998, it was designated as a National Comprehensive Economic Development Demonstration Town for Small Cities and Towns. In recent years, Anyuan... (Detailed information about Anyuan Town++)

Further reading:

· Sixth Batch of Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Sites

· China National Second-Class Museum

· China National First-Class Museum